Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1500
MS M.12 fol. 71r

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Two vignettes in left margin:
1) Mary Magdalen, nimbed, wearing prayer shawl (?) around her neck, holds ointment jar in both hands.
2) Virgin Mary: Infancy, Instruction -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, as young girl, holding book with pseudo-inscription in her lap, sits on lap of Anna, nimbed, veiled.
Upper and lower margins with foliate ornament. Lozenges enclosing foliate ornament in lower margin.